I’m a dummy.

[Superd513]

So my tank is about four months old now and I’ve been having all kinds of nutrient problems because I’m a dumb butt and I overfeed my tank. So I got to look at it tonight and I thought man I’ve got a lot of stuff growing on my rock so I have this toothbrush that I don’t use for anything the fish and I went end of the tank and started just lightly scrubbing this rock off and oh my God, I can’t believe how much leftover decomposing food was on my rock. It completely clouded my entire tank up by the time I got done scrubbing all of the rock off so I let it clear up took about 30 minutes or so and I did it again clouded it up again. There was a ton of stuff on there And I have a complete cleanup crew with everything they recommend other than an urchin so I’m going to hit it again tomorrow and I didn’t realize that this needs to be part of my daily maintenance that I do because I spend a lot of time on my tank, but I just never realized that I needed to gently brush the rock off because I never saw any of that on the rock I couldn’t see it. I didn’t know it was there until I started scrubbing it , so yes I’m a dumb butt but this dummy learn something. Thank you for reading my post. Y’all have a great day.

 

[csturgis1989]

Turkey baster works well also to get the detritus out of the rock crevices.

 

[Dbichler]

If you have powerheads other than mp40s turn them on high and take it to each rock crevice a lot less work. Blows it all out I’m in couple minutes for me on my 210.

 

[Reefer Matt Verified Media Partner]

So my tank is about four months old now and I’ve been having all kinds of nutrient problems because I’m a dumb butt and I overfeed my tank. So I got to look at it tonight and I thought man I’ve got a lot of stuff growing on my rock so I have this toothbrush that I don’t use for anything the fish and I went end of the tank and started just lightly scrubbing this rock off and oh my God, I can’t believe how much leftover decomposing food was on my rock. It completely clouded my entire tank up by the time I got done scrubbing all of the rock off so I let it clear up took about 30 minutes or so and I did it again clouded it up again. There was a ton of stuff on there And I have a complete cleanup crew with everything they recommend other than an urchin so I’m going to hit it again tomorrow and I didn’t realize that this needs to be part of my daily maintenance that I do because I spend a lot of time on my tank, but I just never realized that I needed to gently brush the rock off because I never saw any of that on the rock I couldn’t see it. I didn’t know it was there until I started scrubbing it , so yes I’m a dumb butt but this dummy learn something. Thank you for reading my retarded post. Y’all have a great day.

You sound pretty smart to me! You learned something. Could be a low flow area where stuff is settling too, so increasing flow may help keep it off. Happy Reefing!

 

[rja]

So my tank is about four months old now and I’ve been having all kinds of nutrient problems because I’m a dumb butt and I overfeed my tank. So I got to look at it tonight and I thought man I’ve got a lot of stuff growing on my rock so I have this toothbrush that I don’t use for anything the fish and I went end of the tank and started just lightly scrubbing this rock off and oh my God, I can’t believe how much leftover decomposing food was on my rock. It completely clouded my entire tank up by the time I got done scrubbing all of the rock off so I let it clear up took about 30 minutes or so and I did it again clouded it up again. There was a ton of stuff on there And I have a complete cleanup crew with everything they recommend other than an urchin so I’m going to hit it again tomorrow and I didn’t realize that this needs to be part of my daily maintenance that I do because I spend a lot of time on my tank, but I just never realized that I needed to gently brush the rock off because I never saw any of that on the rock I couldn’t see it. I didn’t know it was there until I started scrubbing it , so yes I’m a dumb butt but this dummy learn something. Thank you for reading my retarded post. Y’all have a great day.

depending on inhabitants, you can literally feed your tank like every other day. People in this hobby overfeed way too much, i think.

 

[Seansea]

Turkey baster works well also to get the detritus out of the rock crevices.

This. Every time you do water change or at least once a week.

 

[kevgib67]

This. Every time you do water change or at least once a week.

Ya, I use the turkey baster right before a water change to get the detritus into the water column as I remove water.

 

[Superd513]

You sound pretty smart to me! You learned something. Could be a low flow area where stuff is settling too, so increasing flow may help keep it off. Happy Reefing!

I really need another powerhead to get the low flow areas flowing better.

 

[Superd513]

depending on inhabitants, you can literally feed your tank like every other day. People in this hobby overfeed way too much, i think.

i have 3 clowns 2 mollies a watchmen and a pistol and a huge bta. and about a dozen lps frags that are starting to grow out sense i started carbon dosing.